What "age" came before The Stone Age?

Answer 1

Neanderthal man: from 230,000 years ago


Around 250,000 years ago Homo erectus disappears from the fossil record, to be followed in the Middle Palaeolithic period by humans with brains which again have increased in size. They are the first to be placed within the same genus as ourselves, as Homo sapiens ('knowing man').

By far the best known of them is Neanderthal man -- named from the first fossil remains to be discovered, in 1856, in the Neander valley near Dusseldorf, in Germany. The scientific name of this subspecies is Homo sapiens neanderthalensis.




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The Neanderthals are widely spread through Europe and the Middle East, and they thrive for an extremely long period (from about 230,000 to 35,000 years ago). Bones of animals of all sizes, up to bison and mammoth, and sophisticated stone tools are found with their remains.

Yet almost everything about them seems uncertain and controversial.


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There is inconclusive evidence that the Neanderthals may have buried their dead (in one case, it has been suggested, even with flowers on the corpse). If they did have burial customs, that implies religion. Yet they have left no other trace of it.

There are skeletons of Neanderthals who lived for several years after serious injury, suggesting a social cohesion strong enough to protect the weak. But if they were so advanced socially, it seems odd to us that they should have left no art, decoration or jewellery. On the other hand a recent discovery of a Neanderthal flute surprised archaeologists, suggesting a more advanced level of culture than had been suspected.


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It may be that the sense of uncertainty about Neanderthal man stems largely from our own eagerness to find early reflections of ourselves. It is perhaps only the lack of clear answers in that context which seems to blur Homo sapiens neanderthalensis.
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Answer 2

There were three stone ages - the neolithic, the mesolithic and the paleolithic ages. The paleolithic was the age in which early humans first began to use stone tools. The mesolithic is the first age when early humans used highly developed stone tools and the neolithic was the age when humans first developed agriculture and began experimenting with metals like gold and copper.
The general consensus amongst prehistorians is that before the paleolithic age humans used wooden tools for a variety of tasks - wood being much easier to work with than stone. Because of the age involved and the fact that wood decays, unlike stone, there is little evidence of this theoretical "Wooden Age", however most prehistorians believe such evidence will, one day, be found.

Answer 3

These "ages" are not fixed chronological times they are periods in the technical development of various humanoids. I suppose the age before "stone" was the tool age when various humanoid species started to use tools of various kinds just as chimpanzees and other animals do today. The stone age started when men found a way of working stone to make more efficient tools. This started at different times in different places, and cultures and is still practised today in some remote areas. Even in the bronze age men were still working and using stone tools as for certain tasks flint tools are superior to bronze. Only with the coming of the iron age did stone tools in general go out of use

Answer 4

This question is quite a difficult question to answer due to the general nature it has been asked.

We can tackle this in many different ways as different cultures, regions and people have sub-divided history into different slices.

The agreed upon name The Stone Age is broken up into 2 or 3 different sub-periods depending on the culture you ask.

Archeaological periods differ depending on who you ask (See source section) and historical periods differ as well.

In theory... there was no period before the Stone Age as it covers all periods before the industrialization of the Bronze Age. Historians and archeologists have debated for years over what is the best way to classify history and my personal opinion is that "Ages" are not the way to go.

Answer 5

The Prehistoric Age.

Answer 6

In maximum primitive societies women could be quarantined faraway from something of the tribe and submit to some form of formality purification. Moon goddesses grew to enhance into well-known among women right now via fact the moon additionally strikes on a month-to-month cycle for this reason it improve into deemed female. I doubt that even interior the main historical situations that girls does no longer have some thank you to mop up the circulate, no count if with a dermis or a woven rag ,which might in all danger be burnt/presented as much as the spirits/god(desses).

Answer 7

The Nuclear age

Answer 8

The Gelasian Age.

Let me explain. Lower Paleolithic, Middle Paleolithic and Upper Paleolithic, which jointly are called The Old Stone Age, Paleolithic or Pleistocene, are followed by the Holocene, and preceded by the Pliocene, whose final stage was the "Gelasian Age".
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Pliocene is the very starting poing of human evolution, the Dawn of Man around 5.3 million years ago. Humans barely used wood, antler or bone tools.

And Pliocene, Pleistocene and Holocene, all of them belong in the Quaternary Period of the geological history of the Earth. Quaternary Period is the Age of Man.

Answer 9

The merry stage
then the stoned age

Answer 10

The stone age refers to social and technological beginnings of humans society. So to my knowledge there is nothing before it.

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